18 books like Dark Watch

What to read after Dark Watch — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Red Rover: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper · 1827 · ★ 3.7 · 361p · ≈ 12h · Challenging In "The Red Rover," a notorious pirate is chased by a disguised agent of the Royal Navy. Romance, adventure, political intrigue, revelations of mistaken identity--here is Cooper at his best: a painter of brilliant seascapes, a riveting narrator of suspense. --- The Library of America Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories, Pirates

Pirate Latitudes Michael Crichton · 2009 · ★ 3.5 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Moderate From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses.In this… Shares: Ship captains, Pirates, Thriller

Ghost Ship Clive Cussler · 2014 · ★ 4.2 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt… Shares: Ship captains, Ficción, Thriller

Plague Ship Clive Cussler · 2008 · ★ 4.1 · 502p · ≈ 16h · Moderate For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits ofthe Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on theoutside but, on the inside, packed with sophisticatedweaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained bythe rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew offormer military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise,available for any government agency that can afford… Shares: Mercenary troops, Thriller

The Sea-Wolf Jack London · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf became an instant bestseller on its release in 1904. Ambrose Bierce wrote "The great thing - and it is among the greatest of things - is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen...the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is black for a man to do in one lifetime." The Sea Wolf tells the story of intellectual Humphrey van Weyden's toughening and growth in the… Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories

Golden Buddha Clive Cussler & Craig Dirgo · 2003 · ★ 4.0 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Oregon Files #1 Shares: Mercenary troops, Ship captains

The Doomsday Key James Rollins · 2009 · ★ 4.4 · 431p · ≈ 14h · Moderate James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headedThe Doomsday KeyAt Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In… Shares: Conspiracies, Thriller

Billy Budd Herman Melville · 1900 · ★ 3.2 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Challenging TRIALS OF THE HANDSOME SAILOR Aboard the warship Bellipotent, the young orphan Billy Budd was called the Handsome Sailor. Billy was tall, athletic, noble looking; he was friendly, innocent, helpful and ever-cheerful. He was a fierce fighter and a loyal friend. All the men and officers liked him... All but one: Master-at-Arms Claggart. Envious, petty Claggart plotted to make Billy's life… Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · ★ 3.9 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John Silver — unusual for children's literature then and now. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates… Shares: Sea Stories, Pirates, Thriller

Shadow Tyrants Clive Cussler & Boyd Morrison · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 393p · ≈ 13h · Moderate When the descendants of a legendary band of imperial secret-keepers threaten humanity, Juan Cabrillo and his team aboard the Oregon race to protect the world from a plot to eliminate all technology. Shares: Ship captains, Thriller

Master and Commander Patrick O'Brian · 1969 · ★ 4.1 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This is book 1 in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is the maiden voyage of O'Brian's acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series, which follows the unique friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars. O'Brian renders in riveting detail the life aboard a man-of-war in Nelson's navy: the conversational idiom of… Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman who helped the English defeat the Spanish Armada, is betrayed by his ruthless half-brother and seeks refuge in the Middle East, where he takes on a new role as a Barbary pirate. Shares: Sea Stories, Pirates

Under a Watchful Eye Adam Nevill · 2017 · ★ 4.0 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 399 pages ; 24 cm Shares: Conspiracies, Thriller

Le Chancellor Jules Verne · 1875 · 62p · ≈ 2h · Challenging The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger () is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne about the final voyage of a British sailing ship, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary). Shares: Ship captains, Thriller

The Hundred Days Patrick O'Brian · 1998 · ★ 4.4 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Set in the days succeeding Napoleon's escape from Elba, where Aubrey and Maturin are in the thick of Europe's attempt to prevent the French Emperor from regaining his power, by attempting to turn Napoleon's secret link to the Islamic world against him. Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories

El Zorro Isabel Allende · 2005 · ★ 3.8 · 390p · ≈ 13h · Moderate El Zorro: comienza la leyenda es una biografía ficticia de 2005 y la primera historia de los orígenes del héroe El Zorro, escrita por la autora chilena Isabel Allende. Es una precuela a los eventos de la historia original del Zorro, la novela La maldición de Capistrano, escrita por Johnston McCulley y publicada en 1919. También contiene numerosas referencias a otros trabajos relacionados con El… Shares: Pirates, Ficción

Broken Angels Richard K. Morgan · 2003 · ★ 4.1 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers,… Shares: Mercenary troops, Thriller

The Fortune of War Patrick O'Brian · 1979 · ★ 4.5 · 312p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Sixième épisode des aventures maritimes du capitaine Jack Aubrey. Shares: Ship captains, Sea Stories

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